Yet fertility rates have remained stable in the U.S. even as they have plummeted in religious fundamentalist countries like Iran and Jordan, as well as in developing countries like Mexico, where rates of religious attendance remain higher than in America.
Brennan and colleagues found that older adults with HIV had similar rates of religious participation to other groups of older adults.
On the one hand, the USA is a deeply religious nation, certainly by European standards, with much higher rates of religious observance, in which politicians infuse their electoral themes with overt professions of belief in God.
Over 3,000 US respondents were asked to rate members of religious groups using a "feeling thermometer" that ranged from 0 to 100: 0 indicated the coldest, most negative possible rating and 100 the warmest, most positive rating.
A tradition of shared decision-making in extended black families and high rates of Christian religious affiliation appear to favor it.
But high rates of attending religious services predicted fewer gambling ills.
In each country, women reported a range of religious affiliations.
Think about the role of religious language.
In the Bay Area, a high rate of intermarriage and a history of religious counterculture are creating new observances.
Christianity, at any rate, is viewed as a part of religious history as a whole, a point that had not always been clearly recognized by theologians.
